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Blaenavon

TitleBlaenavon

CountyGwent

CoordinatesLat : 51.7833333 Lon : -3.0833333

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Description Incorrect Description? Tell Us!Blaenavon (Welsh: Blaenafon) is a town and World Heritage Site in southern Wales, lying at the source of the Afon Llwyd. The town lies high on a hillside and has a population of 6,349 people.

Blaenavon grew around an ironworks opened in 1788, part of which is now a museum. The steel-making and coal mining industries followed, boosting the town's population to over 20,000 at one time, but since the ironworks closed in 1900 and the coal mine in 1980, the population has declined, and now consists mostly of older citizens.

Attempts have recently been made to turn the town's image around by introducing it as Wales's second "book town" (the first being Hay-on-Wye). However after over a year of attempts to attract visitors the project seems not to have succeeded. This can be attributed to a combination of the town's remote location and its local reputation as a very undesirable destination. This is an unfair, but true opinion of the town, as investment and local interest have completely transformed the town's main thoroughfare (Broad Street) and the book shops stock good quality and excellent value books. There are many thriving community groups within the town, including Future Blaenavon, which has helped to create a community garden at the bottom of the town.

Attractions in the town include the Big Pit Mining Museum (an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage), Blaenavon Iron Works, the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, and the Blaenavon Male Voice Choir.

Blaenavon is twinned with Coutras, France.

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Local Campsites

Pyscodlyn Caravanpark is 3.66 Miles away
Pont Kemys is 6.38 Miles away
Pen-Y-Fan Leisure Park is 6.78 Miles away
Ty Newydd Farm is 8.98 Miles away
gilestone caravan park is 11.6 Miles away
Court Farm is 11.28 Miles away
Lakeside Holidays is 13.4 Miles away
Lakeside Caravan Park is 13.39 Miles away

Local Tourist Attractions

Abergavenny Museum is 3.76 Miles away
Bryn Bach Country Park is 7.98 Miles away
South Wales 2000 Shooting Ground is 10.55 Miles away
Welsh International Climbing Centre is 11.54 Miles away
Reel - City Cinema is 14.01 Miles away

Local Golf Courses

Monmouthshire Golf Club is 3.03 Miles away
Pontypool Golf Club is 4.35 Miles away
Wernddu Golf Centre is 5.32 Miles away
Alice Springs Golf Club is 6.78 Miles away
Tredegar & Rhymney Golf Club is 7.77 Miles away
Woodlake Park Golf Club is 7.88 Miles away
Greenmeadow G & CC is 8.67 Miles away
Bryn Meadows Golf Hotel is 11.77 Miles away
Newport Golf Club is 12.95 Miles away
The Celtic Manor Resort Golf Club is 13.72 Miles away

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